Get away from your busy life to the beautiful smiling African coastline for a week in Gambia, West Africa. Take the opportunity to relax and de-stress in the sunny seaside eco-retreat centre set in African forest next to miles of untouched and secluded sandy beaches.
This Yoga holiday is a must for those who want to unwind from a fast paced lifestyle. Sandele is an award-winning eco retreat with numerous awards for responsible tourism in Africa.
It's a place you just simply cannot help but relax into. The environment is beautiful, magical and relaxing. The pace of life is appropriately slow. What better place to nourish and deepen your yoga practice, surrounded by natural beauty and so near an unspoilt palm fringed beach. There will be trips to the local village, bird watching and even boogy boards are available during your week to offer a real complement to your asana practice.
From the 2 - 4th February you will be able to witness the local Cultural festival of music and dance taking place in the village of Kartong. A fabulous immersion into Gambian culture and spectacle, with a suberb backdrop of miles of sandy beach and sea.
Last updated Jan. 3, 2018, 2:23 p.m. UTC
Practising yoga in various traditions for over 20 years, Debbie qualified as a yoga teacher at the International Sivananda Vedanta Yoga Centre in Himalaya, India in 2009. Since her return, she became a teacher with Yogaprema. She also established a Health at Work yoga programme for Bristol City Council leading classes for employees and has been a regular teacher at Universal Yoga, the affiliated Sivananda centre in the UK. Debbie completed Level 1&2 ‘Radiant Child’ teacher training and has led yoga workshops in schools. She undertook further training at Yoga Studies with Paul Harvey completing the CPD programme 'Adjusting for asana' . In January 2012, Debbie completed the Advanced Teacher Training at the Bahamas Sivananda Ashram. ( 500 RYT)
Debbie’s classes and workshops for beginner and intermediate students are in the Hatha Yoga tradition, and are designed to find the balance between tranquility and energy. Her aim is to empower participants, challenging them to extend themselves on all levels, allowing a deeper connection to the transformative power of Yoga through pranayama, asana practice and meditation. Her approach draws on the Raja Yoga influence so a mindful practice can be established. Debbie gives clear instruction balanced with alignment intelligence guiding students to find fluidity through breath connection, deepen their own healing experience and move to a state of tranquility and bliss.
Debbie’s previous career as a professional dancer and dance teacher inspired her passion for Yoga from a range of traditions, leading her to develop an interest in the connection between movement, breath and spirituality.
She now leads corporate classes at BCC and Airbus and teaches in a number of gyms, Fitness First and Kingswood and Bradley Stoke Leisure Centres, delivering Yoga and Meditation.
Debbie has led retreats for the last 5 years in Uk and overseas. She has organised and led retreats and holidays in Les Passeroses, France, The Swan Yoga retreat Goa and the eco retreat Sandele in West Africa, Gambia. She has most recently been invited as a guest teacher for retreats in Spain with Lucia Yoga.
“Going deeper in my knowledge and maintaining my self-practice has transformed my own vitality and focus and, using mindful teaching, I hope to share this with others”
No yoga No peace, Know Yoga, Know Peace. Namaste
